the. protests in ukraine's capital grow in size and number as the so-called million man march ends with a blockade of government buildings and an investigation into alleged attempts to seize power. a fresh round of arrests in bahrain brings the total number jail to nearly three thousand in the almost three year uprising activists claiming the crackdown is intensifying. and a war on the workers the british government's accused of attacking trade unions after ordering an investigation into so-called protesting tactics.

international is coming to you live from moscow with the world's top headlines for me rory sushi and the entire news team welcome to the program anti-government protesters in the center of ukraine's capital are expanding after the opposition called on demonstrators to blockade the entire government quarter now people have started to build barricades following the so-called millions march on sunday and artie's a poll scott is in kiev following developments joining us now live here on the program and let's cross over to our two sports got paul good to see you i understand that are some of the protesters have actually moved beyond the boundaries of the central independent square where you now. yes where we are despite the fact that the the weather here in kiev has taken a turn for the worse hundreds of protesters still remain in the square behind me and hundreds of protesters are continuing their blockades of key governmental

buildings now they've used wooden pallets and vehicles to effectively surround the administrative ha. parts of this country effectively trying to strangle the work of the government without taking over any more buildings by force and i want to see one of the picket lines a number of the picket lines on sunday night particularly the one outside the presidential palace and you've got the rather surreal situation on one side of the blockade you have the police not allowing any protesters in and on the other side of the picket line you have the protesters not allowing anyone in or out to do their daily work there their day job so it's leading at times to a rather tense standoff now for their part the ukrainian security services have launched an investigation into what they're calling an attempt to seize power in the country on sunday the opposition also laid out their key demands to the government key among which were the freeing of any protesters who've been arrested throughout the course of these demonstrations the resignation of the government and a snap election but despite the opposition calls for the protests in the protestors

to remain peaceful sunday also saw some of the opposition movement break rank as masked men tore down a statue on a monument to lenin here in kiev as my colleague arena ghoulish to reports. and then toppled and smashed the statue of one revolutionary has fallen victim to a new generation of marys they call him the ultimate evil but somehow take their cue from his methods as lenin did a hundred years before then protesters in kiev have kept to bury key to the handful of civic buildings. right now the scene there is a mix of a refugee camp and gypsy village hippie hangout. into rock concert with a whole lot of political slogans thrown in. this is what ukrainian opposition calls a revolution others though have

a different name for it we've seen things happening in ukraine we've seen historical government build. you see violence we see. is a bulldozer being huge trash way into buildings if this was happening to be happening in front given that of course these people would be denounced as rioters . maybe given very stiff resistance to the buddhist efforts are getting a financial helping hand from contributors who drop cash into special collection box that has been set up in securities provided by the so-called revolutionary guard masts and helmets whose job is to ward off hostile forces from the gates of the citadel the movement has been blocking the heart of the season and its major here for two weeks now. you are clueless those who incite you to blockade the cabinet the ministers are absolutely reckless irresponsible people the ministry of finance is in this building the ministry responsible for paying wages to all of ukraine stop and think see just salaries doctors pay mergence the services they

will depend on the continued functioning of this government. to know was there is no protest leaders are certain this paralysis is the right way to go in order to reach their glorious goal you see a pattern here of of escalation and provocation a very large public provocation a few nights ago and they were using chains and tractors and of course the police as police do everywhere reacted with violence what would happen if someone drove a tractor and tried to drive it into the white house lawn you're going to tell me that there wouldn't be violence against the hundred thousand people trying to break into the white house if you could imagine something like this happening in any other country for example in europe or in the united states i think about what kind of reaction we would be looking at from the authorities there and whether or not police actually would be blamed for dispersing these types of protests violently or

nonviolently it in those r.t. key of. arena were saying just that. tensions in central kiev are being stoked on social networks were all sorts of theories are being posted let's give you some of the rumors that preceded sunday's mass rally of the most widespread messages were about your authorities planning a violent dispersal of protests using special forces pulled into the capital from other neighboring regions the speculation was fueled further by reports that tanks were also on their way into independence square now another widespread theory that to be circulating for the past week that authorities were about to introduce a state of emergency now none of those rumors came true but modern history professor mark almond says it's wrong to underestimate the danger of rumors such as that. there is a tent through a rumor mill to create a heightened sense of tension along those who remembered these so-called orange revolution in two thousand and four will remember we were told then that the

russian suspects not special forces lurking in the woods in a careful way to interact they weren't nothing happened so we're seeing a kind of propaganda war psychological war taking place using these rumors of both crackdown domestically and even foreign interference whilst at the same time the very western new to the western governments who report these rumors completely ignore the evidence of their own involvement in supporting the opposition providing technical training camps providing financial and other forms of assistance providing a media platform for them and so on and ukraine's protests have changed now from being pro e.u. demonstrations they're now mostly anti government but they remain the focus of attention for european politicians mark arm and told us what's alluring many of them to independence square. first of all we see a parade of losers coming to care first of all of the german foreign minister's party was annihilated in the recent german actually lost all the seats kaczynski

the former polish prime minister is a loser. today the president told the vile by the population how to talk with persons coming because it gives them a sense of self-importance but also the coming because the western part of. your congressional battles may turn to see ukraine as a key strategic factor they want to crane to be under the thumb of nato because they are deeply hostile to russia and poland based political and financial commentator patrick young he believes the e.u. politicians are simply using the ukrainian opposition for their own domestic purposes m.e.p. its members of the european parliament are terrified that they're about to be outflanked by anti european forces in elections in four or five months time therefore they're doing anything to try and get a tinge of popularity and of course the way they do that in the socialist european superstate of the e.u. is try and be seen around liberal demonstrators at all times because it kind of

inflates their ok credentials of looking like hippy liberals the truth is they have no coherent concept of why or what they could do with ukraine and in fact the worst thing that could happen in many senses is that ukraine not signs this economic data because if it didn't like free movement of labor it would be chaos for europe as usual the european union a super state of humbug and hypocrisy. here on r.t. international we're of course following developments in the ukrainian capital on air and online also at our web site r.t. dot com you can find the most dramatic photos and the videos still incoming from the ongoing protests. thanks for sharing your monday with us here on r.t. international twelve antigovernment activists including some children have been arrested in bahrain this brings the total number to twenty eight since the

beginning of this month protesters say the crackdown on their movement which started almost three years ago has only gotten worse in recent months the first of all a crackdown was at the beginning of twenty eleven when four people died during clashes with police and then just a few months later martial law was declared and goal of troops took the country under control up to that time nearly a thousand people have been arrested but the number is now three times that high more than ninety people have been killed since then and twenty twelve kicked off with a rally attended by hundreds of thousands but the people's voice was left and heard so here we are in twenty thirteen and bahrain's king deciding to toughen the penalties for demonstrators the result new protests and more arrests every single week as are the international correspondent paula now investigates. it's the arab spring this forgotten middle east nearly three years have gone by the

people of inspired by the. place of machine and demanded reform but they've uprising was brutally crushed within a matter of weeks we have used their name in the. sponsor of this. starting from this morning police. in the. rain who believe this book. symbol of all the human rights violation anybody saya to use if elmo hafter has been forced to seek refuge in europe because of death threats against him and his family and i gather bahraini activists he criticizes washington and its allies for being quick to condemn crackdowns in some countries while ignoring others oh is better then human rights in bahrain and. it was sedated is better than human rights as a duration are better and so does well we had a victims. of their better standard because we lived in oil last week the global

manami dialogue forum pointedly ignored the crackdown u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel made it clear in his speech that he was more concerned about military matters they feel there are still you have everybody are slaves so that's why they don't want anyone to talk about the force yet they did that if they give them cross see that they are losing their lot even. so very much. so far according to amnesty international more than a hundred people have been killed and almost three thousand imprisoned in the bahraini protest many more have been teaching in a crackdown if it means a far removed from the world's attention police here are teen. politicians. he was arrested this autumn he says authorities are trying to send a clear signal to protesters in other words stay away. the problem is that it is

very basic to understand we have. families and we need. to be shared. by the people in the through an inclusive political system that is retaining the. people rule of law was never meant. illegal. to the international community to stand and your own forces by police and courts that is why. so i think is just part of the punishment part of the threats and feels today the position of the activists not to join the movement that calling for simple rights universal rights of the people to be equal to have big need to participate in political system and development that this one. without international still to come on the program today iraq continues its deadly

downward spiral dozens are dead as blasts rocked marketplaces and shops all across the capital just a couple of minutes here on the program we look at what triggered the rise of sectarian violence. the columns have shaken so hard it's actually pulled the tram if you look around here speaks to texans worried about the effect of fracking after a series of earthquakes leave locals dazed and confused. i was thinking somehow i have to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back the mere thought of it never crossed her mind.

the militants decided to try and break through her new guinea screaming grenade. go the explosion blow them all round his back or. it was a rule and it was all over all. we know that our comrades on our commander leave us no matter how tough it gets we are the team. you are moved getting was a senior in his military trio. he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of his comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends. i play as street cleaner who's in love with the waitress i go on stage managing that there's an audience i used to take drugs and drink like

a fish the police told me about the circus but i was such a punk i was like what circus. circus of clinton's gonna. break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. we are not far off from the world update from international is coming to you live from moscow shops and restaurants the targets the latest wave of car bombings across the iraqi capital baghdad and the prostin predominantly shia areas took at least thirty nine lives and injured well over one hundred agents as an activist who come pains against military action in iraq says that society in the country was

a refund of pot by war. there was a most like of minorities in. iraq and they were sort of held together by a certain feeling of citizenship living in one country but when the americans they imposed sic darian it they didn't appoint people to vote because of their wall of the bill because of their ethnic background and bets were adults or that gave the chance to from the mongol is futile figures. to come back to the scene to abolish the concept of citizenship turns down you were not a citizen of iraq but you were a member up certain sect or member of a certain man so this this creates big big problems in the whole. this year has been one of iraq's most deadly as we're documenting on r.t. dot com with a timeline showing how many civilians have died since the intervention over

a decade ago. i i i . i. start an exclusive report on russia as a special forces coming your way shortly for now to texas we go that state has been hit by eighteen earthquakes in the last month alone scientists are linking the tremors to fracking or the relatively new process of extracting shale gas from deep underground and while the earth is literally shaking under the feet of nervous

locals energy corporations and the government are unshaken of their decision just to keep on drilling a guy in a church account investigates the columns have shaken so hard it's actually pulled the tram if you look around here rebecca williams is showing me the cracks in her home after a series of earthquakes shook the area she has lived here for almost a decade and had never experienced an earthquake until fracking began in her neighborhood i never know when the next one's going to hear it i don't sleep at night because they keep me awake at night it seems like a lot of them happened during the wee hours of the morning or in the middle of the night to texas real world commission the local agency that regulates the oil and gas industries trying to calm the residents fears it claims there is no direct link between the recent tremors and fracking injection wells in the area but locals are not convinced it's a lot like living next to a time bomb but there's no timer on it because we aren't being told when the

fracking is going to start or what the emergency purpose. ages are in place if something does happen and so you're just constantly sitting and waiting and wondering is today the day is today the day so small a juice with the u.s. geological survey say fracking regularly triggers small earthquakes they foresee an even greater danger from wastewater disposal which involves pumping millions of gallons of water contaminated by chemicals deep underground where experts say it puts pressure on seismic faults and causes them to slip but despite seismologist warnings fracking wells keep popping up just a few steps away from private homes and even community water wells nobody knows about any of this until it's too late and if i already have it. even though the government is not concluded it studies on how fracking can affect the environment well operations are in full swing here in texas there are thousands of them impossible to miss and it seems no study can get in the industry's way if in fact

you're asking the question of whether something could happen to halt shale production the united states i think it is highly unlikely it is extremely beneficial to the national economy franking is being largely responsible for the boom in u.s. energy production but maybe like we're back a fear they could be left to pay the price for her every we there was another tremor and another crack in her house she says she can't even sell it and leave the area we would have never moved here if we would have thought that all of this was going to go up and we were going to live in the middle of a wasteland we would have never moved here. and now we're stuck while energy companies are rubbing their hands in the anticipation of gigantic profits from fracking people who live just steps away from gas wells or increasingly fearful about the water that they drink about the land that their homes are standing on and they don't trust the government assessment of the damage from fracking because they

say the oil and gas industry will make sure that no conclusive study comes out and even if it does come out that it doesn't become a basis for effective regulations in texas i'm going to check on our team or a little breakdown for you why people are so worried about fracking as many believe that the chemicals used in the process could accumulate in the soil causing war here and even pollution activists claim there are over a thousand documented cases of contamination and right next to the drilling sites the health risks could include sensory and respiratory damage and more on the dangers of fracking just head over to our website dot com. while you there are lots to look at including record high radiation levels at fukushima experts saying it could kill an exposed human in just twenty details on that at r.t. dot com right now. also in a new interview julian assange says the u.s.

government reacted to revelations from wiki leaks like beetles are reacting to sudden daylight details on that as well right now at r.t. top. right to see. her street. and i think you're. on a recorders. are about to get to be on the world update for now when our international the british prime minister accused of waging a war with trade unions this offer he launched an inquiry into one organizations strike tactics david cameron wants a review of an industrial standoff at an oil plant in scotland which almost led to

the factories closure sorry for three points. it was the undoes field a speech that almost cost thousands of people killed and sponsor union protests the g comparisons the aggressive tactics in the nineteenth seventy's with apache chemical plant grangemouth and scotland's pulse than any else has since reached an agreement with the unite union involved in not to speak but doesn't and prime minister david cameron has launched an independent inquiry into the union's behavior of the things that were described as intimidating bully like tactics and mode style behavior when protesters gathered outside. manages houses and the now infamous rat well the inquiry is also going to be looking at the behavior of the union unite at this being why are we as a tool. that this despite this is union bashing well earlier we spoke to one british trade union leader trying to find out what he thinks about it some of these

chief executives and managers. around the place which you know exam of them who go to church on a sunday and say that they believe in fairness and equality and i was going to rain . michael moore's movie for work and. then we've got the. protests protests cambridge. and the fact that mary's is that what's really happened is that the government mary since our commission really suppression. because they're not part. of the offer and that's what we really want. to call to action. we would love to think. we could see it's i will persuade people through commonsense. vested interests you've got

a vested interest in the employer concerned is making mommy mommy mommy expensive. and so hence the reason more. i've only got one really tall. strike or two for him just like that's the brutal reality of the jungle of capitalism. are some of the global headlines for you three for the r.t. international world update indonesia a passenger train has collided with a truck carrying liquefied gas at a rail crossing so far it has been confirmed two people are dead with rescuers still searching the upturned carriages firefighters. still trying to contain an intense fire. thailand's prime minister dissolved the parliament and called new elections following sustained protests in buying calls which you see in a number of deaths despite that around one hundred thousand demonstrators have gathered for fresh rallies they want

a prime minister and cabinet to step down and not so when an interim administration . triggered by an amnesty bill for an ex prime minister ousted in two thousand and six on charges of abuse of power you also happens to be the current leader is rather. of the death of an indian man after a bus hit him servia riots in singapore and little in the district hundreds holder rocks at police and torched the cars at least sixteen people were hurt most of them offices and what twenty seven arrests this is the first rioting in singapore for approximately three decades. a football match in brazil ended with fierce fighting between hundreds of rival fans one person before killed several others seriously injured riot police fired rubber bullets to break up the trouble and violence has become common in the country that's raising security concerns ahead of next year's world cup. all right

so what do you know about russia's special forces probably not as much as you'd like to a special behind the scenes documentary coming your way in just a moment. just imagine a foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin to shoot up an anti e.u. protest and a greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian customs union obviously the big media would be on fire screaming that this is part of an attempt to usurp democracy and steal the country's away some sort of imperialist agenda and you know what they might be right about that but the weird thing is that for some reason the mainstream media isn't talking about foreign politicians speaking to and or possibly agitating

protesters in ukraine like speaker of the lithuanian parliament loreto grows in india and e.u. vice president got sick put the sea of itch and former polish pm jaroslav kaczynski he had the european union brassfield is just fine for their politicians to go to foreign countries and fire up protestors to start a pro e.u. revolution but then all their journalists write about is how russia is trying to put pressure on ukraine to not join the e.u. the obvious hypocrisy of this stinks all the way up the moscow but the shust by painting.